Atavists
Stories
Format:Paperback
Publisher:WW Norton & Co
Publishing:10th Mar '26
£14.99
This title is due to be published on 10th March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Hardback£19.99(9781324074410)
From Lydia Millet—“the American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselves” (Chicago Tribune)—comes an inventive collection of short fiction. Atavists follows a group of families, couples and loners in their collisions, confessions and conflicts in a post-pandemic America of artificially lush lawns, beauty salons, tech-bro mansions, assisted-living facilities, big-box stores, gastropubs, college campuses and medieval role-playing festivals.
"Millet playfully skewers Los Angeles liberals while leaving their social concerns quietly intact on the page..." -- Maria Crawford - Financial Times, ‘Best summer books of 2025: Fiction’
"Although optimism is understandably in short supply, Millet delivers her doom with a generous dose of subversive humour… Millet has an excellent ear for dialogue, and her characters are endearing." -- Mia Levitin - Financial Times
"Very few writers can make the apocalypse hilarious and sentimental." -- Stuart Kelly - Scotland on Sunday
"[Millet] knows how to put a story together. How to pace drama and consummate tension, when to turn up the volume and when to leave us alone with what she’s put in motion." -- The New York Times
"All this tension, which Millet renders keenly and readably, is built and released in the face of immense and existential forces of undoing..." -- The Los Angeles Review of Books
ISBN: 9781324123552
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
240 pages